Members of the Greene County, Alabama Retired Senior Volunteer Corps (RSVP) chapter sold this quilt to Alabama folk art dealer Robert Cargo. Collectors’ interest in folk art allowed these RSVP members to leverage an art form with a long history in their predominantly Black community to benefit their neighbors. Similarly, the Freedom Quilting Bee, a cooperative founded in 1966 in nearby Wilcox County, sold quilts by mail order to benefit impoverished Black residents who were being evicted and harassed because they participated in the Civil Rights Movement and registered to vote under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.